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 *kill Clove, Twilight (1859); Bivouac of the 7th Regiment at Arlington Heights (1861); Shrewsbury River (1868);	San Giorgio (1869); Fishing-Boats on the Adriatic, Charles Stewart Smith, New York; Pallanza, Tivoli (1870);	S. M. di Salute—Venice, R. C. Taft, Providence; Lago Maggiore, R. L. Stewart, New York; Monte Ferro (1871); Golden Horn (1872); Venetian Sails (1874), J. J. Astor, New York; Pallanza—Lago Maggiore, T. B. Clarke, ib.; Castle of Chillon, Samuel Hawk Collection, ib.; October in the Catskills, J. P. Morgan, ib.; Lake, Mountains of Vermont, M. K. Jesup, ib.; Autumnal Scene, Marine and City, J. C. Coale, Baltimore; View in Venice, H. B. Hurlbut Collection, Cleveland; Mansfield Mountain—Vermont, Mrs. Joseph Harrison, Philadelphia; At Beni-Hassan, Near Palermo (1876); Leander's Tower, Sunset on the Hudson, Fire Island Beach (1877); Sunset—Bay of New York (1878); Villa Malta—Rome, Claversack Creek, Sea-shore, looking Eastward at Sunset (1879); Ruins of the Parthenon (1880), Corcoran Gallery, Washington; Sunrise on the Matterhorn (1880).—Am. Art. Rev. (1880), 851; Kunst-Chronik, xvi. 25.

GIGNOUX, RÉGIS, born in Lyons in 1816, died in 1882. Landscape painter, first instructed at Freiburg, Breisgau, then pupil of Lyons Academy, and in Paris of the École des Beaux Arts and of Delaroche; went to America in 1844, became member of the National Academy in New York in 1851, and returned to France in 1870. Works: Bernese Alps by Sunrise, Indian Summer in Virginia, Niagara in Winter; Four Seasons in America, Baron Rothschild, Paris; Dismal Swamp; Mount Washington, Mrs. A. T. Stewart, New York; Niagara by Moonlight, August Belmont, ib.; Mammoth Cave, Historical Society, ib.; Winter Scene, Corcoran Gallery, Washington; Moonlight on the Saguenay (Johnston Sale, New York, 1876); Spring.—Müller, 205; Tuckerman.

GIGOUX, JEAN FRANÇOIS, born in Besançon, Jan. 8, 1806. History and genre painter, pupil of the École des Beaux Arts. A skilful painter, and a good lithographer. Medals: 2d class, 1833; 1st class, 1835 and 1848; L. of Honour, 1842; officer, 1880. Works: Henry IV. writing Verses in the Missal of Gabrielle d'Estrées (1833); Mme. Dubarry Dressing; A Good Adventure; Count Comminges recognized by his Mistress; Death of Leonardo da Vinci (1835), Besançon Museum; Anthony and Cleopatra after the Battle of Actium; Héloïse receiving the Remains of Abélard; Magdalen, bought by State; St. Geneviève; St. Philip healing a Sick Man; Baptism of Clovis (1844), ordered by State; Nativity (do.); Death of Manon Lescaut; Death of Cleopatra (1850), Good Samaritan (1857), Portrait of Fourier, Luxembourg Museum; Charlotte Corday (1848); Galatea (1852); The Vintage (1853); The Eve of Austerlitz (1857), Besançon Museum; An Arrest during the Terror (1859); Head of Sarassin (1861); Poetry of Southern France (1866); First Meditation (1867); Magdalen (1870); The Fisherman and the Little Fish (1872); Father Lacour (1875); A Boy (1876); Youth of De Ruyter (1877); Fountain of Youth, Magdalen in the Desert (1878); Beauty Asleep in the Woods (1879); In the Desert, Martha (1880); A Luxurious Man (1883); Capture of Ghent, Portrait of Charles VIII., Versailles Museum. He has also executed the decorations of a chapel in Saint Gervais, Paris, and religious pictures for St. Germain l'Auxerrois, St. Merri, and St. Protais.—Bellier de la Chavignerie, i. 646; Gaz. des B. Arts (1864), xvi. 168; Meyer, Gesch., 286; Müller, 205.

GILBERT, Sir JOHN, born at Blackheath, Kent, in 1817. History and portrait painter, self-taught, excepting a few lessons from George Lance; began as an illustrator for newspapers and books; exhibited first